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exercise that privilege for the promotion of some definite policy to which he is 

 committed because of his status in the community. So, in a certain time, the 

 Guild might be represented in Parliament by a small party sitting in permanent 

 opposition, or rather neutrality, to the Government of the time and concerned only 

 with the interests of its constituencies. Those interests, we have repeatedly 

 pointed out, are the interests of the efficiency of administration and the proper 

 place of independent, original thought in the State : they are not necessarily the 

 mercenary interests of a section of the population. 



Further Development of a Constitution 



To attempt to make a constitution at this stage would be foolish. The first 

 aim of the Guild ought to be to include as many as possible of university men 

 and women (making the entrance and periodic subscriptions unusually low) ; then 

 to take steps to influence the Parliamentary elections ; and, lastly, to proceed to 

 elaborate further modes of action. Perhaps the most obvious suggestion to make 

 at the present time is that the Guild should proceed to segregate into Craft 

 Sections, so that we might (for instance) have : 



(i) University Teachers — that is, all professors, lecturers, demonstrators, etc. 



(2) Technical and Secondary Teachers. 



(3) Elementary School Teachers. 



(4) Literary Professional Workers : thus, translators, indexers, librarians, 



abstractors, secretaries, literary, historical, and archaeological investi- 

 gators, and so on. 



(5) The Chetnical Crafts : pure researchers, analysts, industrial chemists, etc. 



(6) Physical Crafts : public, civil, and consulting engineers, surveyors, archi- 



tects, patent law agents, etc. 



(7) The Biological Crafts : medical men who are solely engaged in investiga- 



tion, public health medical officers and inspectors, bacteriologists, 

 entomologists, fishery investigators, economic botanists. 



(8) Matheinatical Crafts : actuaries and statisticians. 



This grouping is, of course, the merest suggestion. 



Now, there are many other associations in existence : the Public School 

 Headmasters, the National Union of Teachers, Associations of Analysts and so 

 on — few of our Crafts have not already some degree of organisation. How to 

 coalesce with, or co-operate with, or replace these existing organisations, or what 

 are to be the relations of the Guild with them, must be the first consideration of 

 the Craft Sections. But it may frankly be recognised that this union or co-operation 

 may be so difficult as to be impossible ; it may also be urged that there are 

 numbers of professional men and women outside the existing associations ; that 

 there is no existing means of synthesising all these activities ; and that the objects 

 which the Guild desires to promote are not quite the same as the restricted 

 objects of the existing bodies. 



It is to be expected that many university men and women will either not join 

 the Guild or will take little practical interest in its working if they do join. It is, 

 perhaps, hardly to be expected that the older workers, and also those who belong 

 to other craft organisations, will join in more than inconsiderable numbers, and so, 

 for a time, the Guild can hardly hope to be fully representative of the trained 

 higher craft workers of the country. 



But the appeal made here is to the young. The first local Guild Councils must 



